Example sentences of "[was/were] why [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why we stopped before . |
| 2 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 3 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 4 | That was why it had all happened . |
| 5 | That was why he relied chiefly on Simenon , an author for whom he preserved a high opinion all his life . |
| 6 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 7 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |
| 8 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
| 9 | And that was why I drove eastwards along Lake Geneva . |
| 10 | Worrying ahead had never been one of my habits , which was why I had mentally allowed Bill 's importance to get so out of hand . |
| 11 | That was why I have now decided to write to him . |
| 12 | There was only one person she wanted to see and that was why she stared so searchingly into the young pretty face of the policewoman . |
| 13 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 14 | What she could n't understand was why she felt so bad about it . |
| 15 | ‘ Isabel miscarried , which was why she became so mad for Benedict 's coming here . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps that was why she acted so aggressively sometimes . |